new animated feature: “Ernest et Célestine”

Looks like we can eagerly anticipate yet another wonderful hand-drawn animated film from France. Thank goodness the French animators apparently did not get the memo that “2D is dead” . Hopefully this one will get picked up for U.S. distribution by GKids who also distributed “The Secret of Kells” and “A Cat of Paris” among other recent hand-drawn animated films.

The directors are Benjamin Renner, Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, the latter two of whom directed the recent stop-motion feature A Town Called Panic.